It Goes So Fast, It Runs So Deep

This portrait piece spans the Pandemic years in my daughter's life, with photos taken at particularly deeply reflective moments in her journey. As a 5 to 8 year old, she felt deeply and grasped widely what we all did, and I saw this in these moments. I wanted to convey the importance of acknowledging the depth of a child's insight, intelligence, emotion and empathy in contrast to how we often diminish their capacity, speak openly as if they aren't present, treat them as if their experience is fleeting and shallow and minimize in our minds their ability to remember, participate in the world around them, and carry it forward with them as they live out their lives.